Unscramble FALDERAL and you have 116 words, FALDERAL itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. 4 shorter words score 10, among them FLARED, AEFALD and AFEARD. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from FALDERAL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 6, 18 with 5, 41 with 4, 32 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
5 of 41 4-letter words from FALDERAL tie at 8 points; none scores more. READ, REAL and AREA will look familiar.
Trade one tile of FALDERAL for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with FA · ending in AL · all 8-letter words
What FALDERAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
FALDERAL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FALDERAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 116) | 92 | 115 | 89 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 116 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AEFALD, AFALD, DARAF, RAFALE, AFEAR, ALDEA, AREAD, ARLED, DALLE, ERF, FAA, FAE and 11 more. 3 of the 116 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEF, FE and DA. 1 of the 116 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ALF.
This word takes every letter of FALDERAL plus a single extra one.